Yesterday, I visited the Capuchin catacombs in Palermo, Sicily. In a grotto about a mile or so from the center of the modern city are found the preserved remains of about 2,000 people who paid the monks to preserve their… Read More ›
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How I Loved Myself through Charismatic Worship by Andreea Nica
Breaking up with your first love can be an excruciating process; especially when it happens to be completely entangled with your being. God was my first love and he stayed for a long while. We had many exhilarating times together,… Read More ›
Menstruation for Buddhist Women by Oxana Poberejnaia
Not all, but many women menstruate. The menstrual cycle is a contentious areas for feminists. Even men who aspire to be a feminist tend to find it difficult to deal with it. Inappropriate jokes ensue, and completely ignoring the issue… Read More ›
Your Body is the Body of the Goddess by Marie Cartier
My body is the body of the goddess—witches and shamans and other magical beings (including humans) chant this in spring ritual …and other times of the year as well. But as we prepare for spring equinox, I thought I would… Read More ›
Embody the Sacred – Engaging Through the Senses by Deanne Quarrie
The human body is designed to utilize all senses. We, human beings, have drifted away from our natural state through which, at one time, we engaged with all of life through our natural senses, including the intuitive. This change has… Read More ›
Smells Like Homeness by Erin Lane
“Tell me why it can’t be that simple,” I plead with my husband. “He needs a bed. We have a guest room.” I am desperate for an answer that will assuage my guilt and brighten my mood. It’s more than… Read More ›
Working and Working Out: “Health,” Obesity, and Labor by Stefanie Goyette
What I think we must consider in analyzing any form of “health” that is encouraged, and even enforced, is that such encouragement comes back in the end to the ability to work, to be “productive,” and, in turn, to spend… Read More ›
If You’re Lucky, You get Old, Part II: Stories from the Yoga Mat by Marie Cartier
Yoga is about in the moment, and gifting yourself with that moment. I am interning right now and teaching classes in yoga. I am teaching in a park– donation based yoga. The other morning, I had no students, so was… Read More ›
If You’re Lucky You Get Old—Part One by Marie Cartier
This year two significant shifts happened inside of me: I realized I was getting older. And I wanted to protect my body/mind. These may seem to be perhaps the same realization– but both of these realizations came from very different… Read More ›
SHE WHO CHANGES* by Carol P. Christ
She changes everything She touches and everything She touches changes. The world is Her body. The world is in Her and She is in the world. She surrounds us like the air we breathe. She is as close to us… Read More ›
Taking my body back from… the pill? A call for more of “her stories” about contraception By Sara Frykenberg
I recently made what felt like a very big decision in my life to stop taking the birth control pill… not to try to get pregnant mind you, though some of those I told incorrectly read this as the subtext… Read More ›
